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A weekly programme of recent records
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John Betjeman introduces the fifth in a series of eleven weekly programmes.
Choir of New College, Oxford
Organist, David Lumsden
Assistant Organists, Walter Hillsman, Alastair Ross
A request programme of gramophone records
played by Fou TS.ONG
Scherzo in C sharp minor
Three Nocturnes, Op. 9
Mazurkas:
E minor, Op. 17 No. A minor. Op. 17 No.
A flat major. Op. 7 No. 4
Prelude in C sharp minor. Op.
45
Polonaise in D minor
Ballade in F minor
Ninth in a weekly series
PHILADELPHIA Orchestra
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY gramophone records
0 A lyric tragedy in four acts
Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE after Victor Hugo
English version by Tom Hammond Music by Verdi
Bandits, knights. ladies-in-waiting, soldiers
SADLER'S WELLS OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master, John Barker
SADLER'S WELLS OPERA ORCHESTRA Leader, John Sealey
Conducted by BRYAN BALKWILL
The action takes place In Spain and Germany in the year 1519
Part 1
Scene 1 The mountains of Aragon Scene 2 A room in Silva's castle
Scene 3 A hall In Silva's castle
Duet: Tanti strait at sen mi scocchi, for two voices and continuo
3.20* Harpsichord Suite No. In
G minor (First collection)
Ouverture: Andante: Allegro: Sarabande; Gigue; Passacaille
3.41* Duet: Fronda leggiera e mobile, for two voices and continuo
0 BENVENUTO Duo
Clare Walmesley (soprano) Laura Sarti (mezzo-soprano)
BERNARD Richards (cello continuo) CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord)
Tenth in an extended series of programmes devoted to a wide range of Handel's music
Israel in Egypt: October 15
0 Part 2
Scene 1 A hall In Silva's castle
Scene 2 The burial vault of Charlemagne in Aachen
Scene 3 A terrace of Don Juan 's palace in Saragossa
ⓢ MUSIC played by ALBERT FERBER
bv COLIN BUCHANAN
Professor of Transport at Imperial College, London
Drawing on recent experience of planning in Bath, Cardiff, Oxford, South Hampshire, London, and elsewhere. Colin Buchanan suggests that it is the state of public taste which is, fundamentally, the bar to the improvement of our physical surroundings. He analyses the reasons for this situation and suggests ways in which public taste might be improved.
Second broadcast
Clarinet Quintet In A major
(K.581)
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
Norbert Brainin (violin)
Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola)
Martin Lovett (cello) with GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet)
The Wound by Alfonso Sastre
An English version for broadcasting by JOE BURROUGHS and TRADER
FAULKNER Lo demas era muerte y solo muerle
The rest was death and only death At five o'clock in the afternoon
THE PROLOGUE
The ante-room of a bullring Infirmary in a Spanish city during a Corrida de Toros
THE EPILOGUE
A small bar in the suburbs near the bullring
Juan Marcos Rafael Pastor
Tho time is the present or recent past.
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
Alan Tilvern is appearing In ' The Brian Rix Theatre of Laughter ' at the Garrick Theatre. London
plays
Schoenberg's Violin Concerto with the New Philharmonia Orchestra Led by Desmond Bradley
Conducted by Rene Leibowitz
Part 1
RUDOLF KOLISCH , RENÉ LEIBOWITZ and HANS KELLER discuss the Concerto
Part 2
reading with Allen Ginsberg
Introduced by GEORGE MAcBETH
At the recent South Bank Poetry Festival, the star reader was the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti , now aged 79. These extracts from his recorded readings of his own poems, with translations read by Allen Ginsberg , show something of the range and power of his work.
The vocal pieces from the Anna Magdalena Notebook CHARLES BRESSLER (tenor)
NEW YORK CHAMBER SOLOISTS
0 gramophone record
